Hanging with Mr Cooper Bison

My brother, Stuart aka The Bison, moved to Wellington a few weeks ago. It’s really cool to hang out with him. Like last night we were playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on MAME… and we were having a ball.

Back when we were living together and he was still at intermediate/high school, he had a mega drive, and we used to play Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and we’d beat each other up. My favorite character was Liu Kang, so I’d be all like “Bicycle Kick Bicycle Kick Fireball Fireball Upper-Cut” and he’d be Kabal and he’d be all like “Mincey Mincey Mincey Mincey” and he’d kick my ass 🙂 So re-living that last night was real cool.

We also played some Star Control 2 Ur-Quan Masters : Super Melee and he kicked my ass, again… So I burnt it to CD for him… I know he’ll enjoy it 🙂

Embodied on a Magic Card

My brother Stuart gave me this link to a picture of a Magic: The Gathering card that has a picture of a character with an uncanny similarity to me. Eerie…

I come bearing gigs!

Finally! I have 120 Gigabytes to call my own! I bought a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120026A… 120GB, 7200rpm, 8.5 ms average seek time, Ultra ATA/100 interface with an 8MB cache…Mmmmm… It should be ultra fast and ultra quiet… I can’t wait to take this beast home and slap it in my machine. Unreal Tournament 2003 here I come!

New Computer

Kodiak was selling his Athlon XP2000+ with 512mb RAM and GeForce4 Ti4200 64mb RAM, so I bought it off him for my AMD 900MHz with 256mb RAM and onboard video and NZ$800. No HDDs involved in the deal, but he threw in Unreal Tournament 2003 and Serious Sam 2. Nice deal huh? It’s my first real decent vidcard. Pity I don’t have any hard drive space to install UT2k3… I’m gonna need about 3GBs… time for a new drive methinks 🙂

Birthday Report

My birthday was pretty cool. Friday night I went out to dinner with Mel. We went to Stellar, a restaraunt inside Courtenay Central. We shared a wood fire pizza (Rotisserie chicken stuffed pizza with camembert, mozzarella, bacon and onions, very yummy), then went and saw Two Weeks Notice, which although it was a chick flick, was actually a pretty cool movie. We came home and Mel had stealthly left a picnic hamper at home, but because it was raining we did the picnic thing in my room – really romantic like 🙂 Afterwards, we played Risk with Chris and Mark – Chris won (Kill Blue (Chris) or 24 Countries, by the latter), but Mel had Kill Green (me) and nearly won too, on her first game!… :-/ Mel really enjoyed playing, and we’ll probably all play again on Thursday night

Saturday I slept in and then Chris and Mark gave me a present. It was Lazy Sunday 3, which is what I wanted for my birthday (cheers guys!). But even better was the card they gave me – Mark, it seemed, had spent two days making a birthday card featuring a fake letter sent to Strong Bad asking him to send me an email saying Happy Birthday – LMAO! Excellent, guys!

Later that night a few of my friends (Mark L, Jaron, Ben and Steph) came over and we played xbox for a little while, then got Hells and watched Jackass The Movie. That is one classic movie… if you’ve never seen a Jackass, and are not squeemish, you will be after the end of this movie. 😀

Anyway, the birthday was overall the best birthday I’ve ever had, and caps off the fact that this is the best era i’ve had in my life (new job, girlfriend, overall happy to be alive motif). I don’t things could get worse 😀 but we’ll see 😉